Butler To Webcast Fall Sports

Sep 04, 2013

Students from the Butler University College of Communication
will be producing 12 Butler fall sports webcasts in football,
men’s and women’s soccer, and volleyball that will air
free on ButlerSports.com.

The first production will be Saturday’s 6 p.m. home
football opener vs. Wittenberg at the Butler Bowl with director Ian
Smith, producer Mark Pearson, color analyst Matt Schumacker, and
2012 College of Communication graduate Mark Minner handling the
play-by-play.

"It's exciting to be able to provide a real world sports
production environment that gives students throughout the College
of Communication the opportunity to gain valuable experience and at
the same time produce content for Butler sports fans around the
globe,” said Multimedia Coordinator Eric Esterline.
Esterline, College of Communication Instructor Scott Bridge, and
Associate Professor Christine Taylor supervise BU students with all
aspects of the fall sports productions. Gary Edgerton is Dean
of the College of Communication.

Butler’s College of Communications produced all home
football and women’s basketball webcasts last season.

“We believe this is a great opportunity to partner with
current students to provide great online content of our
student-athletes in competition,” said Butler Associate
Athletic Director/External Operations Mike Freeman.
“Between the Dawg Pound, cheerleaders, bands, dance team and
student workers we have a great amount of student involvement at
games and this takes it even further.”